France
People of this nationality
Marina Hands
b. 1975
stage actor
Thierry Lincou
b. 1976
squash player
Joseph René Vilatte
1854 – 1929
Anglican priest
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
1757 – 1834
military officer
Suzanne Kohn
1895 – 1945
Sid Ahmed Rezala
1979 – 2000
journalist
Henri Théophile Bocquillon
1834 – 1883
physician
Robert Picard de La Vacquerie
1893 – 1969
Catholic priest
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
b. 1949
economist
Renée Poznanski
b. 1949
historian
Armand Lemay
1873 – 1963
architect
Lyne Clevers
1909 – 1991
actor
Jérôme Fournel
b. 1967
official
Louis de Mauris, Vicomte de Malartic
1769 – 1832
military personnel
Constant Moyaux
1835 – 1911
architect
Paul Masson-Oursel
1882 – 1956
philosopher
Émilie Busquant
1901 – 1953
women's rights activist
Hélène Cortin
b. 1972
rower
Rémy Cabella
b. 1990
association football player
Edith Selig
1929 – 2020
singer
René-Jean Jacquet
1933 – 1993
association football player
Henri Baudouin
1926 – 2020
politician
Raphaël Mapou
b. 1955
politician
Bernard Stora
b. 1942
film critic
Edme Charles Philippe Lepère
1823 – 1885
politician
Robert Masson
1914 – 2010
French resistance fighter
Yves Fraisse
b. 1943
rower
Don Neroman
1884 – 1953
astrologer
Paul François de Quelen de la Vauguyon
1746 – 1828
politician
Salomon Leclerc
1745 – 1792
religious person
Emma Shapplin
b. 1974
opera singer
Jean de Gaulle
b. 1953
politician
Emmanuel Rodocanachi
1859 – 1934
historian
Pierre Brumoy
1688 – 1742
playwright
Jules Pommery
b. 2001
athletics competitor
Louis Saha
b. 1978
association football player
Henri Pézerat
1928 – 2009
chemist
John B. Root
b. 1958
pornographic film actor
Jacques Le Guen
1958 – 2025
politician
Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux
1753 – 1824
politician
Rayan Souici
b. 1998
association football player
Joseph François Noos
1766 – 1826
military officer
Jean-Adrien Mercier
1899 – 1995
painter
Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné
1646 – 1705
salonnière
Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin
1787 – 1847
physician
Benjamin Gavanon
b. 1980
association football player
Paul Chandelier
1892 – 1983
association football player
Jean-Pierre Mader
b. 1955
singer
Jean-Joseph Rallier des Ourmes
1701 – 1771
mathematician
Julien Guay
b. 1986
sport cyclist
Georges Gruillot
1931 – 2021
politician
Berthe de Rohan
1868 – 1945
Steeve Beusnard
b. 1992
association football player
Charles Louis Mozin
1806 – 1862
painter
Thomas Linard
b. 1988
golfer
Jean-Yves Mitton
b. 1945
comics artist
Adrien Maire
b. 2000
sport cyclist
Mahmoud Refaat
b. 1978
international law scholar
Bertrand Cantat
b. 1964
guitarist
Marcelle Capy
1891 – 1962
women's rights activist
Madeleine Akrich
b. 1959
engineer
Claude Courchay
1933 – 2024
crime fiction writer
Louis Perrin
1799 – 1865
printer
Samba Konaté
b. 2009
association football player
Jean-Michel Bellot
b. 1953
journalist
Nathaël Julan
1996 – 2020
association football player
Paul Éluard
1895 – 1952
writer
Didier Rykner
b. 1961
art historian
Claude Adelen
b. 1944
poet
Marie-Ange Rousselot
b. 1987
politician
Antoine Ranc
1634 – 1716
painter
Bernar Venet
b. 1941
sculptor
Charles IV, Duke of Anjou
1446 – 1481
feudatory
Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot
1833 – 1914
pianist
Amédée-François-Paul de Béjarry
1770 – 1844
politician
Henry I, Count of Bar
1158 – 1190
feudatory
Olivier Baroux
b. 1964
actor
Benoît Battistelli
b. 1950
official
Fariba Adelkhah
b. 1959
anthropologist
Augusta Hure
1870 – 1952
curator
Georges Garnier
1878 – 1936
association football player
Lénora Guion-Firmin
b. 1991
athletics competitor
Maurice Ourry
1776 – 1843
playwright
Georges Barboteu
1924 – 2006
composer
Axel Journiaux
b. 1995
sport cyclist
Alexandre Louis Robert Girardin
1776 – 1855
military officer
Félix-Hippolyte Lanoüe
1812 – 1872
painter
Jacques Massu
1908 – 2002
military personnel
Bruno Armirail
b. 1994
sport cyclist
Baptiste Vignes
1985 – 2022
flight instructor
Shana Grebo
b. 2000
athletics competitor
Chevalier d'Éon
1728 – 1810
diplomat
Jacques Cousinot
1585 – 1646
physician
Théo Michel
b. 1994
corporate administrative and commercial executive
Louis Péricaud
1835 – 1909
chansonnier
Pascal Pierre
b. 1968
association football player
Alexandre Dang
b. 1973
painter
Henri Robin
1811 – 1874
magician
Paul Féval
1816 – 1887
writer
André Vansteenberghe
1906 – 1984
French resistance fighter